After writing about those grim subjects, Whitehead started writing crime novels set in Harlem. A film adaptation starring Aunjanue Ellis is in the works. The second Pulitzer was for "The Nickel Boys," based on the true story of a segregated state reform school for boys in which the boys were physically abused and dozens died.
The first Pulitzer was for "The Underground Railroad," an allegory about race in America told through the stories of an escaped slave and a slave catcher.
My guest, Colson Whitehead, won Pulitzer Prizes for two consecutive novels.
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